1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

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1955 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 15th edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

Romania won the gold medal after finishing top of the final group. Japan won the silver medal and England won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 Romania
Angelica Rozeanu
Sari Szasz
Ella Zeller
 Japan
Fujie Eguchi
Shizuki Narahara
Yoshiko Tanaka
Kiiko Watanabe
 England
Ann Haydon
Diane Rowe
Rosalind Rowe
Jean Winn

Final tables

Group 1

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Romania Romania 6 6 0 6
2 Hungary Hungary 6 5 1 5
3 Scotland Scotland 6 4 2 4
4 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 6 3 3 3
5 Bulgaria Bulgaria 6 2 4 2
6 Denmark Denmark 6 1 5 1
7 Belgium Belgium 6 0 6 0

Group 2

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan Japan 6 6 0 6
2 France France 6 5 1 5
3 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 6 4 2 4
4 Netherlands Netherlands 6 3 3 3
5 Egypt Egypt 6 2 4 2
6 Saar Protectorate Saarland 6 1 5 1
7 Republic of Ireland Ireland 6 0 6 0

Group 3

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 England England 7 7 0 7
2 Austria Austria 7 6 1 6
3 Wales Wales 7 5 2 5
4 United States United States 7 4 3 4
5 Sweden Sweden 7 3 4 3
6 Germany Germany 7 2 5 2
7 Italy Italy 7 1 6 1
8 Switzerland Switzerland 7 0 7 0

Final group

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Romania Romania 2 2 0 2
2 Japan Japan 2 1 1 1
3 England England 2 0 2 0

Decisive final group match

Romania Romania 3 Japan Japan 2 Score
Rozeanu bt Eguchi 21–13 21–16
Rozeanu bt Tanaka 21–16 19–21 21–9
Zeller lost to Eguchi 19–21 7–21
Zeller bt Tanaka 14–21 21–16 22–20
Rozeanu & Zeller lost to Eguchi & Watanabe 19–21 13–21

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  5. ^ "1955 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.